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Wow... I read that as 'Wooden Adolf Hitler'... <smacks head>


Serious question: why are RevRal and I being down voted? Is it because the comments are not additive? (I am trying to get a hang of HN.)


Yeah. A lot of people misread words as other words. Sometimes they are mildly funny but rarely are they especially interesting.


Normally, yes, these off-topics aren't very interesting, but it was to me to see that I wasn't the only one making such a gross scan-misreading of the words.

It's curious to me specifically because this misreading seems so much further from the actual letters than most normal misreadings. Is it because of the strong emotions attached to the name that we're subconsciously more "on the lookout" for it?


You're not alone, I did too.

Even worse, while scanning through I kept thinking "why is he calling this thing Adolf Hitler?"




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